QUANTIFIERS
A speaker may particularize a referent by referring to its quantity, which may be exact (three friends), non-exact (many friends), ordinal (the first friend), or partitive (three of my friends).
Exact numeratives
These include the cardinal numerals one, two, three . . . twenty-one, twenty-two . . . a hundred and five . . . one thousand, two hundred and ten, and so on. These function directly as determinatives.
The ordinal numbers – first, second, third, fourth, fifth . . . twenty-first . . . hundredth . . . hundred and fifth and so on – specify the noun referent in terms of order. They follow a determinative, as in: the first time, a second attempt, every fifth step, and in this respect are more like the semi-determinatives, including the next, the last.
Non-exact quantifiers
The two types select referents by referring to:
their indefiniteness: some, any, no, much, many, little, few (a(n).
their distribution: all, both, either, neither, each, every, another, other
